MOVIE

The Last Time I Committed Suicide

2.6
(88)
Rating
R
Duration
1h 33m
Year
1998
Language
English

About

Beat Poet Neal Cassady is pulled between two women, Mary (Gretchen Mol), a teen temptress and Joan (Forlani), his first true love. Based on a letter written by Cassady to his friend, author Jack Kerouac, this beautifully photographed film is about the choices people make and how they alter the course of one's life.

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"You didn't have to dye your hair green, pierce your tongue and wear bizarre eye makeup to stand out as a flaming rebel in the late 1940s. All you had to do was chain-smoke, play pool, listen to be-bop and break girls' hearts. That's the portrait of the 20-year-old Neal Cassady (flashily played by the newcomer Thomas Jane) that emerges in Stephen Kay's snazzy-looking but slight film, "The Last Tim
Stephen Holden, New York Times

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